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This bunch of actors knew straight away that their TV show wasn't destined to be a hit.
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00:00From a set of Disney Channel sensations quickly figuring out that a titular show was a bad move
00:05altogether, to one of the galaxy's most adored bounty hunters also not being a fan of the
00:09direction his character was written to head down, each of these TV actors could sense a bumpy road
00:14ahead from the get-go. The always doomed Gareth here from WhatCulture.com and here are 8 actors
00:20who knew their TV show was doomed on day one. 8. Colin Baker Helped Produce a Doctor Who
00:26charity single pleading for its comeback. While the BBC's iconic Doctor Who series may
00:31currently stand as one of the most cherished and respected small-screen franchises ever to warp
00:35into our lives, the show was definitely on the ropes towards the end of its first run in the late 80s.
00:40In fact, things got so bad when it came to the overall quality of the sci-fi time-traveling
00:45property with Colin Baker at the wheel of the Doctor that the show was put on ice for 18 months
00:50in 1985. On the back of BBC One controller Michael Grade feeling it had just become too violent and
00:55a very clunky studio show. Then, in a move that still needs to be heard to be believed,
01:00the decision was made by British songwriter and Who superfan Ian Levine to assemble a collection
01:05of artists together to record a universally panned charity song by the name of Doctor in Distress
01:10to drum up support for the series edging towards cancellation. Clearly sensing he needed to do
01:16something in a bid to keep his failing Doctor dreams afloat, Baker himself also agreed to appear
01:21in the ill-fated tune, with Hans Zimmer of all people playing the song on a synthesizer.
01:26All of the jarring beats in the world couldn't save Baker from eventually getting the regeneration
01:30treatment after just three years including said lengthy hiatus in the Time Lord saddle though.
01:367. Clayne Crawford's Lethal Weapon Honesty
01:38Being handed the chance to lead a TV adaptation of one of the most cherished action movie series of all
01:44time isn't something most actors would be in too much of a rush to turn down.
01:48And sure enough, when presented with this exact opportunity a couple of years back,
01:52Clayne Crawford was happy enough to sign on the dotted line and commit himself to the role
01:56made famous by Mel Gibson of Martin Riggs in Fox's incoming Lethal Weapon action series
02:01alongside Damon Wayans' Roger Mertow. However, in the time after the dust settled on his eventual
02:06firing from the production, a few years into its run due to alleged misconduct on set,
02:11Crawford was quick to note how he sensed he wasn't in an environment suited to him out of the gates.
02:15As he'd tell UPI in 2020,
02:18I was surrounded by people that didn't care that much about the artistry of it,
02:21and I should have known that going in. Placing the entire project,
02:24one that would come to an end following its subsequent claimless season,
02:28as nothing more than a cookie cutter, and feeling wholly unfulfilled by the experience
02:32on the back of appearing in the critically acclaimed Rectify show,
02:35Crawford seemingly knew from the get-go that chasing the money may not have been the wisest call
02:40on this occasion. 6. Chris Harris Knew That A Top Gear Reboot Was Doomed From The Start
02:45News of the trio who helped turn the petrol head delight that was the BBC's Top Gear into the
02:50household name it eventually became, not returning to the show on the back of Jeremy
02:54Clarkson decking a producer over some steak, left the series' future in doubt in 2015.
03:00Hellbent on keeping the Top Gear legacy alive, despite Clarkson, James May, and Richard Hammond opting
03:04to take their brand of calamity to Amazon Prime though, the BBC ultimately decided to relaunch
03:09the show with a completely new lineup of hosts. But from day one, one of said new faces in the
03:15form of Chris Harris could sense this particular attempt to keep the Top Gear brand going was
03:19doomed from minute one. As Harris would admit to Metro when talking about how the show managed to
03:24eventually strike the right balance with later attempts at recapturing some genuine chemistry
03:28between the hosts, the first time I did this in 2015-2016, I thought, oh god, what have I done?
03:34Noting how former Radio 1 host Chris Evans, no not that one in particular, was doomed,
03:39because people were always going to hate it because it wasn't Jeremy, Harris was understandably
03:43relieved to find that the BBC had got their chemistry right upon his eventual first day
03:48alongside current co-hosts Andrew Flintoff and Paddy McGuinness.
03:525. Tamura Morrison knew he talked too much in the book of Boba Fett
03:55After finally making his live-action return and ultimately getting his mitts back on his iconic
04:00Beskar armor over the course of Disney Plus' The Mandalorian, news of Tamura Morrison getting
04:05yet another opportunity to strut his stuff as the immortal Boba Fett in his own damn book was
04:11enough to leave most Star Wars diehards needing a long soak in a Bacta tank.
04:15Unfortunately though, said long-awaited book of Boba Fett didn't exactly deliver on the promise
04:19of the badass bounty hunter, getting a chance to really remind fans why they had clamored for
04:24so long to see him given the spin-off treatment he so richly deserved.
04:28And this is a sentiment seemingly shared by the leading man himself from early on in the show's
04:32production, with Morrison eventually going on record to note to ET how he wants the character
04:36to get back to his badass ways if he returns later down the road.
04:40In another conversation, this time with NME, Morrison would also express his desire to have
04:45Boba remain as an often silent assassin instead of having him talk too much throughout shooting,
04:50admitting to trying to pass off some of his dialogue to co-star Ming-Na Wen at one point.
04:55As he put it, this scene tomorrow, I'm talking too much. This Boba doesn't talk this much.
04:59I've got all these paragraphs here. I think we should get rid of it. And John's gone to Atlanta,
05:04so don't tell him. Next morning on the set, I got a call from Atlanta.
05:07Uh, John wants you to say all that dialogue. And what Favreau says goes, I guess.
05:11Number four, Charlie Barnett wasn't fully on board with Ordinary Joe.
05:16Cut down after just one season in March of this year.
05:19NBC's Ordinary Joe getting cancelled not long after its first 13 episodes trickled onto the network
05:25didn't actually come as too much of a surprise to one of the show's stars as it goes.
05:30Assessing that the story itself gets really, really, really confusing,
05:34the Eric Thespian's fears of his program being a little too difficult to execute,
05:38to the point of roping in a sizable network audience, ultimately came true later down the road.
05:43With the actor eventually declaring that it was always going to be a challenge to compete with
05:47the likes of Netflix and Hulu with a show this complicated, and he was not necessarily surprised
05:52to see it dead.
05:54Number three, John Rhys-Davis thought Sliders' scripts were gibberish.
05:58Quite clearly cherishing the world he was occupying at the time,
06:01and sensing the limitless potential housed within the late 90s sci-fi fantasy show by the name of
06:06Sliders on Fox, it was this love of the concept that left John Rhys-Davis positively seething
06:12for much of his time, bringing Professor Maximilian Arturo.
06:15Number three, John Rhys-Davis thought Sliders' scripts were gibberish.
06:19Quite clearly cherishing the world he was occupying at the time,
06:22and sensing the limitless potential housed within the late 90s sci-fi fantasy show by the name of
06:27Sliders on Fox, it was this love of the constant battles he found himself in with the series'
06:32writers during his time as part of the first three seasons of the show.
06:36Branding the scripts often handed to him as incomprehensible gibberish,
06:39Rhys-Davis would go further inventing his frustrations at the writers on set, stating,
06:44I would go to the writers and complain, but they would say,
06:47John, why don't you just say the words as written? And I'd say, I'll tell you what,
06:50I will actually say the words as written when you can actually write intelligent sentences.
06:55In the end, after Rhys-Davis departed during season three, Fox would ultimately opt to cancel
06:59the flailing show before it was picked up by the sci-fi channel for its final two seasons.
07:04Number two, the Jonas Brothers just went along with it despite Disney's writing being terrible.
07:08They may form one of the most unstoppable pop trios on the planet and have even made some
07:13headway in Hollywood in more recent times. But the Jonas Brothers didn't exactly get off to the
07:18best of starts when it came to their detour into the world of acting. Nick, Joe and Kevin have each
07:22all gone on record at various points to admit to sensing how much of a bad idea their first real
07:27standalone project whilst working under the Disney Channel banner was from the second they started
07:31to get to grips with the writing being handed over to them. With the late naughty show by the name of
07:36Jonas and later Jonas LA, focusing on the fictionalized version of this heartthrob boy
07:41band, Joe would tell Vulture that some of the weird slapstick humor writing was terrible before
07:46noting,
07:46We went along with it at the time, because we thought Disney was our only real shot,
07:50and we were terrified that it could all be taken away from us at any moment.
07:54Again reiterating their regret over agreeing to the whole Disney debacle, Nick in particular would
07:59confess when talking about the show's second season during their 2019 Chasing Happiness documentary,
08:04We shouldn't have done that. It really stunted our growth, you know. I feel like it was just a bad move.
08:09Fair to say the lads have done alright since this early House of Mouse mishap though, eh?
08:121. Matt LeBlanc knew Joey was doomed from the start
08:16Trying to follow up Agape, the biggest sitcom ever to grace the world's TV screens, is a tall order
08:21whatever way you slice it. Trying to do so just a few months on from its highly emotional finale being
08:26taken in by over 50 million passionate fans around the globe was downright insane.
08:31And sure enough, the ill-advised Friends spin-off that was Joey didn't exactly manage to recapture
08:37lightning in a bottle despite boasting one of the most lovable elements of that NBC game-changer
08:41front and center. But clearly feeling as though the burden of having to carry an entire episode
08:46on his back was a lot of responsibility, and the pressure was so much, Matt LeBlanc himself
08:51has since confessed to Radio Times. It was doomed from the start. In Friends, I was sharing a 22-minute
08:57episode with six other characters. In Joey, the script was all me. Going further, LeBlanc would
09:03also allude to the showrunner, who had also just finished up on Friends, and himself likely benefited
09:08from taking a year off instead of diving straight into the spin-off. In the end though, Joey was
09:13savaged by the critics, and didn't live past its second season before being canned. LeBlanc would
09:18also take a much-needed five-year break from the acting world not long after Joey's cancellation,
09:23before rocking up in BBC Two and Showtime's episodes and eventually winning a Golden Globe
09:28in 2011 for playing a fictionalized version of himself.
09:31How's he doing? He's doing alright.
09:33And that's our list of any other actors who knew their TV show was doomed on day one.
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